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Nashville Sounds Baseball

Nashville, TN – The Nashville Sounds completed their first sweep of the season with a 6-1 victory over the division-rival Iowa Cubs on Thursday evening at Greer Stadium in the finale of a four-game series.

Nashville (67-73) extended its longest winning streak of the year to five games. The Sounds — who never trailed during the entire four-game set — won 10 of their 16 games against Iowa this season, the club’s third straight double-digit win total against the I-Cubs.

APSU Sports: Austin Peay Volleyball

The Lady Govs will open with a 10:00am, Friday contest against No. 11-ranked Dayton (3-0) which downed 2011 national runner-up Illinois to start the season. A 5:00pm matchup with UALR (2-1) will offer a rematch of last week’s contest in Memphis which UALR won in five sets. Saturday’s action begins with a 10:00am outing against Oral Roberts (2-1) before a 6:00pm affair against host Missouri State (0-3).

Clarksville, TN – One morning in the early 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, a young man named Charles Bruno showed up at the Ford Motor Compnay looking for a job. A line of applicants stretched down the block, so Bruno and his brother crawled under a fence to get closer to the front door.

The company was looking for experienced welders. Bruno, the son of Italian immigrants, only had a seventh-grade education at the time, and he hardly knew what a welding rod looked like. But he had a new wife and a family to support, and his determination impressed the man in charge of hiring. He gave Bruno a job. «Read the rest of this article»

Clarksville, TN – For the Reverend Richard Wesley, the demographic information about the community of people who live within a five-mile radius of St. Bethlehem United Methodist Church on Russellville Road is fascinating.

However, the information is serving as St. Bethlehem UMC’s guide in planning a new modern service that will begin at 11:00am, Sunday, September 23rd.

Country singer Blaine Larsen to sing at St. Bethlehem United Methodist Church’s community Block Party Saturday, September 22nd.

On August 23rd, 2012, around 1:30pm, two women entered a store off of Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, took four laptops worth $2900, and exited from the store without paying. They were only in the store for about one minute.

Austin Peay State University

Clarksville, TN – Earlier this year, the award-winning writer David Huddle was contacted by Dr. Amy Wright, Austin Peay State University assistant professor of creative writing. Both writers hailed from rural Wythe County, VA, and after a bit of reminiscing about local haunts they both knew, Wright asked Huddle a question.

How would he, a two-time National Endowment of the Arts fellow and author of more than 17 books of poetry, fiction and essays, like to spend a few months this fall and next spring in Clarksville, working with APSU creative writing students? «Read the rest of this article»

Montgomery County, TN – Tiny Town Animal Clinic is partnering with Montgomery County Animal Control and Adoption Services to offer free spay and neutering to all cats at Animal Control during the month of September.

Cats will be transported to Dr. Leslie Burchett’s office, located at 1815 Tiny Town Road, for the free surgery and then available for adoption at Animal Control for $37.00. «Read the rest of this article»